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Tiberius succeeded his stepfather Augustus, the first Roman emperor.
Famous Birthdays on November 16
-42 — Tiberius
Roman emperor (died 37 AD)
November 16 has 210 recorded notable births across history, from 42 BC to 2006. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1988 In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan. Source
- 2022 Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon. Source
- 1965 Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. Source
- 1973 U.S. president Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. Source
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Bol Manute Bol is a South Sudanese–American professional basketball player who last played for the TNT Tropang 5G of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
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José Saramago was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.
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Tamawashi Ichiro has eight gold stars for defeating a yokozuna, and five special prizes, holding the records of oldest man ever to win a special prize and a kinboshi after the July 2025 tournament.
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As a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik, including works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit.
More major people born on November 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1999
Bol Bol
South Sudanese-American basketball player
Bol Manute Bol is a South Sudanese–American professional basketball player who last played for the TNT Tropang 5G of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks.
1922
José Saramago
Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (died 2010)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once…
1984
Tamawashi Ichiro
Mongolian sumo wrestler
Tamawashi Ichirō is a Mongolian-Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ulaanbaatar. Wrestling for Kataonami stable, his highest rank has been sekiwake.
1895
Paul Hindemith
German composer, violist and conductor (died 1963)
Paul Hindemith was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist, and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe.
1981
Osi Umenyiora
English-American football player
Ositadimma "Osi" Umenyiora is a British-Nigerian former professional American football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL).
1753
James McHenry
Irish-American surgeon and politician (died 1816)
James McHenry was an Scots-Irish American military surgeon, statesman, and a Founding Father of the United States.
1862
Charles Turner
Australian cricketer (died 1944)
Charles Thomas Biass Turner was a bowler who is regarded as one of the finest ever produced by Australia. Among his accomplishments were:taking 283 wickets in the English season of 1888 for 11.27 runs each.
1980
Carol Huynh
Canadian wrestler
Carol Huynh is a retired Canadian freestyle wrestler. Huynh was the first gold medalist for Canada in women's wrestling and the first gold medallist for the country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
1959
Francis M. Fesmire
American cardiologist and physician (died 2014)
Francis Miller Fesmire was an American emergency physician and a nationally recognized expert in myocardial infarction.
1938
Kang Ning-hsiang
Taiwanese politician
Kang Ning-hsiang is a Taiwanese politician. He was active in the Tangwai movement, and began his political career as a supporter of Huang Hsin-chieh.
1968
Shobha Nagi Reddy
Indian politician (died 2014)
Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh, India.
1807
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Icelandic poet, author and naturalist (died 1845)
Jónas Hallgrímsson was an Icelandic poet, writer and naturalist. He was one of the founders of the Icelandic journal Fjölnir, which was first published in Copenhagen in 1835.
1946
Terence McKenna
American botanist, philosopher, and author (died 2000)
Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants and mushrooms.
1946
Barbara Smith
American writer
Barbara Smith is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States.
1981
Kate Miller-Heidke
Australian singer-songwriter
Kate Melina Miller-Heidke is an Australian singer and songwriter. Although classically trained, she has generally followed a career in alternative pop music.
1989
Iamsu!
American rapper and producer
Sudan Ameer Williams, better known by his stage name Iamsu!, is an American rapper and record producer from Richmond, California.
1935
Magdi Yacoub
Egyptian-English surgeon and academic
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is a Coptic Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the…
1916
Daws Butler
American voice actor and singer (died 1988)
Charles Dawson Butler was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon production company and the Walter Lantz cartoon studio.
1956
Terry Labonte
American race car driver and businessman
Terrance Lee Labonte, nicknamed "Texas Terry" or "the Iceman", is an American former stock car driver. He raced from 1978 to 2014 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup and Sprint Cup Series.